5-4-3-2-1 Early Childhood Tips for Today: Literacy

• Read with your child, tell stories, recite nursery rhymes and sing fingerplays.
• Ask your child simple questions about the book.
• Attend a storytime at the public library.
• Expose children to environmental print.
• Act out stories through dramatic play, draw simple pictures, or sequence pictures to retell a story.

• Lipsett Learning Connection
• Teach Preschool Literacy
• Launching young readers! Reading Rockets
• 8 Strategies for Preschool ELLs’ Language and Literacy Development

• The Essentials of Early Literacy Instruction
• Developing Early Literacy Report of the National Early Literacy Panel
• Literacy Promotion: An Essential Component of Primary Care Pediatric Practice

Children Read Alouds

Rosie’s Walk—Pat Hutchins

Rosie the hen leaves the chicken coop and sets out for a little walk. Right behind her is the fox, slyly trying to catch up with her. Rosie's … blissfully unaware of the fox's travails as he tries -- unsuccessfully -- to navigate the obstacle course that Rosie has led him through.

Jump, Frog, Jump—Robert Kalan

A rollicking cumulative tale of a frog who tries to catch a fly without getting caught itself.

1. Interactive Read Aloud

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